Samuel gissinger



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IMPRVED MAG-EINE FOR SQUEEZING PUDDLED BALLS 0F IRON.

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TO ALL WI-IOM IT MAY CONCERN Be it known that I, SAMUEL GISSINGER, of Lawrenceville, in the county of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Squeczers; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of 1et`ereneemarked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in the use of a coniformed nut or burr, and shell or case, provided with an upsetting-plate running spirally around on the inside face of 'the shell or case, the whole being constructed, arranged, and operating in the manner hereinafter described.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its eonstruction and operation. In the accompanying drawings, which form part of my specificationy Figure 1 is a top vie-.v of my improved squcezer for forming and preparing puddled iron into blooms. Figure 2 is a side or front View of the same, representing a portion of the shell or case broken off.

- In thc drawings, A represents the eoniformed nut or hurl', which is secured'on the shaft f, the bearings of which are in the bottom plate n and the cross-pieces h. The surface ofthe nut or burr A is provided with grooves or eorrugations, marked e, which increase in size from the top to the bottom of the nut or burr. The shell or case B is constructed in the ordinarymanner, and is held in position by the upright pieces marked m. On the inside face ofthe shell or case Buis placed an fupsettingU-pla, D, which runs spirally around the nut or burr. 'lhe space between the shell B and nut or burr is arrangedin the same manner as in the ordinary squeezcrs." C represents the apron of the squeezer, and is made in any of the known forms, and secured to the shell or case in any desired manner. The driving-gear of the squeezer is applied to the upper end of the shaftf, (as indicated by the crank, marked y,) and is arrange-:l in the usual manner for operating squeezers The upsetting-plate D is so arranged that the pnddled ball of iron will, when it becomes compressed and elongated bythe action of the squeezcrs, be upset; that is to say,the plate D will compress the bloom endwise. The nut or burr A beingr of greatest diameter at the bottom, andthe grooves or corrugation's being wider and deeper at the bottom of .the nut or burr, the puddled ball and bloom formed from' it will have a tendency to travel downwards. .l

The operation of my improved fsqueezer is as follows: The puddled ball of iron is thrown on theapron C, and is then forced in between the shell and nut, the motion of which will dra\v,in the ball, compress, and elongate it until its ends come in contact with the upper and under surface et' the plate D; that is to say, the lower ond cf'thc vbloom will press on the upper i'aee of a part of -the plate D, and the upper end of the bloom will press on. the under face of a part of the plate D, and thereby upset or'comprcss the bloom endwise. After the bloom has passed the end of the plate D, it will drop from between the shell and nut a. completelycompressed and well-i`ormed bloom.

Havinff thus described the nature construction, and o )eration of m im rovement what I claim as oi` m a 7 x y invention, is-

Squeezers constru set forth.

SAMUEL GISSINGER.

Witnesses:

JAMES J. JOHNSTON, .ALEXANDER HAYs.

cted, arranged-and operating substantially as herein described, and for the purpose 

